low-throughput

A few fact(oid)s about Dame Agatha Christie I haven’t been aware until now. Pharmacy and toxicology were among Christie’s many interes...

From Soul Music by Terry Pratchett: A new day dawned. It had hardly finished doing so before Ridcully hurried through the dewy grass ...

From The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony : The Cucuteni-Tripolye culture first appeared around 5200—5000 BCE and su...

“I need my wife. She solves for me all my mathematical problems”, Albert Einstein used to say [1]. What? I have to admit that until tod...

From the Foreword to the 1990 Edition of Awakenings by Oliver Sacks : In the summer of 1970, then, in a letter to the Journal of the Ame...

It’s been a while since a did a MOOC. But I just couldn’t resist doing The Science of Beer , a five-week course from the Wageningen Univers...

In her 2013 book La ridícula idea de no volver a verte ( The ridiculous idea of not seeing you again ), Rosa Montero wrote: Simone de B...

Here’s a story: in 2015, I did my first MandarinX course and quite liked it. Last year, I did the second one. And then, when the third i...

Yesterday, I came across this short film , as usual, looking for something completely different at Film English . “This should be compul...

From Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks : Scheele was one of Uncle Dave’s great heroes. Not only had he discovered tungstic acid and molyb...